Why It Matters
When a legal AI vendor says it is model-agnostic, it means it can swap the foundation model underneath. That matters because models improve quickly, and a product locked to one model can fall behind or change behavior when that model is updated.
Related Terms
- LLM (large language model)
- The type of AI model behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and most legal AI assistants, trained on very large amounts of text to predict and generate language.
- Fine-tuning
- Further training an existing AI model on a narrower set of examples, such as legal documents, so it performs better on that kind of work.
- AI wrapper
- A product that adds an interface, prompts and workflows on top of someone else's AI model rather than building its own model.
General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.